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01 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 1

Jeremy C. Stein Abstract—We study optimal government debt maturity in a model where investors derive monetary services from holding riskless short-term securities. In a setting where the government is the only issuer of such riskless... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

24 Jan 2025
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The Network Effect

Karan Mathur (left) and Dina Model (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) When Dina Model and Karan Mathur (both MBA 2015) met through mutual friends during their first year at HBS, neither was envisioning a future business deal. “We didn’t realize that we had shared... View Details

04 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Research, April 4

businesses have led the venture capital model to adapt in fundamental ways over the prior decade. We both document and provide a framework to understand the changes in the investment strategy of VCs in... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Dec 2015
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December 22, 2015

Business School Case 716-405 The On-Demand Economy This note describes the emerging on-demand economy, also referred to as the sharing economy. The note highlights several companies including Uber and Airbnb that exemplify this new mode... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

19 May 2009
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First Look: May 19, 2009

businesses that have passed through the high growth stage can continue to deliver the resources, capabilities, and platforms needed to fuel the emerging opportunities of the future. This business lifecycle... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

11 Nov 2014
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First Look: November 11

the only solutions are to either recouple activities or rebalance to create and capture value (i.e., revenues) from both activities separately. Here, digital technologies can be seen as an instrument that will both disrupt traditional View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 6, 2007

multi-sided business, its technology offering and early business model, its efforts to shift to a new model based on media distribution, and its chief competitors in that market space. Purchase this case:... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

26 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 26, 2008

time. Optimal Deterrence When Judgment-Proof Agents Are Paid in Arrears—With an Application to Online Advertising Fraud Author:Benjamin G. Edelman Abstract I develop a screening model with delayed payments and probabilistic delayed... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

08 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 8

same approach they do! Based on extensive research and interviews, Own Your Future shows how to apply the simple model they use-Act. Learn. Build. Repeat-to reinvent the way you maneuver in an unpredictable job market. Here's how it... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

14 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 14, 2010

leading producer of floor cleaning equipment, must determine the business model to use for its new chemical-free cleaning technology. In 2005, Tennant Company had developed an innovative, environmentally... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 25

Technology Adoption Author:Diego A. Comin Publication:In Handbook of Economic Growth, edited by Philippe Aghion and Steven Durlauf. Elsevier, forthcoming Abstract We present a tractable model for analyzing the relationship between... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Feb 2016
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February 16, 2016

shadows of their external counterparts and how the former organization form has evolved over time. The core competencies underlying the contemporary in-house agency model are analyzed, and the competitive position that in-house agencies... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 14

the appropriate resource allocation among various product and platform offerings, and the most beneficial business model for each of a few candidate multi-sided platform initiatives. Purchase this case:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009

consumer demand for e-paper services; (5) potential competitors, including Amazon's Kindle; (6) business model options for Orange's service; and (7) the reactions of French newspapers—crucial content... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

13 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 13

intrinsic motivation for the cause and by facilitating social comparison among agents. Third, contrary to existing laboratory evidence, financial incentives do not crowd out intrinsic motivation in this setting. Download the paper:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details

15 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 15

sources. Recently, the insertion into this world of business models incorporating advanced management expertise have demonstrated that commercial success is possible while significantly improving access to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 19, 2008

Vivek Khuller has built Smartix by attracting classmates to co-found it with him, learning how to pitch it to top VC firms and potential strategic partners and honing the concept and business model by... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

May 2020 (Revised December 2022)
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Soofa: Displaying the Right Path?

By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang, Amy Klopfenstein and Amram Migdal

In November 2019, Sandra Richter, co-founder and CEO of Soofa, a network of advertising-supported digital bulletin boards, must decide between two different fundraising and expansion plans for her company. One plan entails raising $15 million in a Series A round and... View Details

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April 2021
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Codecademy: Where to Next?

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Max Mailman and Sarah Ascherman

In March 2020, Zach Sims, co-founder and CEO of online education platform Codecademy, prepared for a meeting with his Chief of Staff Kunal Ahuja to discuss the company’s goals. Codecademy billed itself as the largest online resource for computer science literacy and... View Details